How to Secure a WordPress Website for Free - Security Tips

Published: 26 March 2021
on channel: WPMU DEV
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With WordPress powering 40% of websites on the internet it's no surprise that the platform is a target for security breaches.

In this video, we show you how to secure your WordPress website completely for free - first with some basic security tweaks to WordPress and then installing a free security plugin that will take care of the rest.

We will walk you through all the steps so that by the end of the video you will have a super-secure WordPress website.

Why not check out our blog post on this too: https://wpmudev.com/blog/secure-wordp...

Try Defender: https://wordpress.org/plugins/defende...

0:00 Intro
0:40 Update WordPress and Plugins
1:47 Use a Strong Password
2:23 Additional Security Steps
2:55 Defender Install and Setup
3:46 Security Recommendations
4:23 Malware Scanning
5:57 Firewall
6:21 Two-Factor Authentication
7:36 Mask Login URL

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